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- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
very rational view of people, and workers were almost considered like widgets." —Ian Larkin For instance, Norton and several other researchers ran an experiment at a large American amusement park, documented in the paper Paying to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Visa, American Express, or Diners Club. Estée therefore targeted a small number of fine department stores that sold merchandise on credit, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus, and Bloomingdale's. She was not particularly interested... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
make sense for me to pursue?’” Coffman has recently co-written an article in the American Economic Review as well as two working papers, all aimed at studying men’s and women’s beliefs about their own abilities. What she found, in... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
Brick-and-mortar retail is at the center of many parts of our society—it bridges the gap between consumers and brands, brings Americans into the workforce and helps them advance their careers, attracts traffic and a sense of community to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
creating social value. As long as an organization creates significant social value, we don't care how it sustains itself—with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
2007) Abstract The role of acquisitions has been widely discussed in management literature. There is considerable evidence that many acquisitions fail, often because of post-acquisition problems. More recently business historians have examined their role in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that will be open for the next hour. Such technology is already being built into the navigation systems of the next generation of American automobiles. It's one of several approaches to bringing together the best features of electronic... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. More than 80 percent of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
moment was beyond anything I could have imagined. Like some of you may have felt when you joined HBS, I was desperately hoping that I would somehow survive and not make a fool of myself among my peers. But what makes great American... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
U.S. population, robustness of these results across demographic traits and political views suggests that a large share of the American public holds views inconsistent with standard welfarist objectives. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
interesting to note the absence of family-owned companies in this group. If we take into consideration the fact that the use of social ventures as a competitive tool is not entirely legitimized within the Latin American business... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Leone, which was also founded by repatriated North American freed slaves. Both countries have a small population and have suffered overlapping conflicts. "They're siblings as far as nations go, and their paths to recovery are likely... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
years. One final note: I think that American wineries have begun to recognize that the way that they have marketed wine has limited their ability to make wine appealing to a wider audience. As Michael Mondavi has said, "For decades,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
geographic exclusivity he needed to offer them. On the cost front, he found that to tap cheap student labor, franchisees would have to supply delivery personnel with mopeds, because most Spanish students, unlike their American... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- Profile
Arthur Rock
all about,” Rock said. “It’s about building companies. Success for me is helping to build great companies. That’s how I get my kicks.” For the past half-century, Rock has certainly gotten his kicks. He has been an active champion of entrepreneurism in View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
alumni. He states that the “once-moderate centrist Republican Party has shifted to the right edge of the scale” and goes on to promote Democrats’ “market-oriented, solutions-driven politics.” Please note that the Republican standard-bearer, John McCain, is well in the... View Details